Walk-in wardrobes have been made popular by celebrities like the Kardashians and Stacey Solomon positioning photographs on social media.
Grand entrances and racks of clothes are all packaged up in a stylish colour pallet and full-length mirrors and one woman is showing us how to get the look on a budget.
25-year-old Megan Righelato, owner of Instagram @megsathome transformed her bedroom from a bland beige room into her dream walk-in space for £1,000.
This is a huge saving on a bill that would have cost £10,500 if a professional did a project of the same size and all it took was some free weekends and a few YouTube videos.
Megan's tips for an affordable walk-in wardrobe
Megan spoke to MattressNextDay and came up with four tips for how we can achieve the same look and make a walk-in wardrobe work for our space.
Save money by doing it yourself
Megan said, “We are having to budget as we're renovating the whole house, and adding an extension downstairs next year.
We spent approximately £1,000 building our walk-in wardrobe and renovating the bedroom (excluding furniture). We managed to keep the cost so low by doing everything ourselves, as usually, paying for labour is the biggest expense.”
Megan isn’t wrong, as the average cost of a labourer is £200 per day.
With a wardrobe of her size, it would take four days for a professional to complete, costing a total of £800 in manual work. Instead, Megan and her boyfriend saved this cost by carrying out the work themselves.
She added: “We both work full-time so could only dedicate our weekends to working on it, so it took about six weekends in total.”
YouTube is a huge help
Whilst she and her boyfriend had no experience in creating a bespoke wardrobe space, she claims that YouTube was her biggest help.
She said: “The coving was a bit of a nightmare to get our heads around but with the help of YouTube, we ended up mastering it. By the end, I realised that it’s important to not be afraid to make mistakes and realise that it always gets worse before it gets better. We got to a point where it felt like it was never-ending, but we are so pleased with the result.”
How she made her IKEA wardrobes look bespoke
Another way that Megan saved money is buying purchasing cheaper (but good quality) wardrobes and finding ways to make them look more bespoke.
She said: “We purchased the PAX wardrobe units from IKEA for around £600, however, we decided to add beading to the drawer units to match the more traditional style of our bedroom, such as the panelling.
We then painted them in Crown’s ‘Satin White’ to get rid of IKEA’s classic white colour. Finally, we added cup-shaped handles to the wardrobes to make them look more expensive.”
Other bedroom details
Her final touch in the walk-in wardrobe space was her vinyl herringbone effect floor, which cost £65 and is from onlinecarpets.co.uk.
However, this was the only part of her bedroom floor that was altered.
For the sleeping part of the room, she “shopped around to find the best carpet deals but decided to leave the carpet as it is for now, to keep our costs down.”
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